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Wood engraving in progress at a rate compatible with following test match cricket on the BBC website. #birds #NaturalHistory #nature #art #printmaking

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Curlew in the cottongrass.

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Wood engraving in progress. A male stonechat perched on a bracken frond, keeping an eye on me, inquisitive fledglings close by. Engraving is flipped left to right so that prints are the right way round. Not that it matters in this case.

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“And thus, as I fancied, the dense life within made itself faintly audible in my ears, family after family contributing its quota to the general hum, and the whole pile beating in tune to its timepieces, like a great disordered heart.” Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes. Robert Louis Stevenson

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What do I have to do to get some interaction on here? Maybe if I talk about the years I spent as a volunteer scientific advisor to the National Trust, visiting sites up and down the country. I could post pictures of puffins. Everyone likes puffins. You want other seabirds? No problem...

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Watercolour sketches, Scottish mountains. Can you name them?

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Broad-bodied chaser, azure damselfly and large red damselfly. A hot afternoon, and the next few will be hotter. We sat in the shade at RHS Harlow Carr garden in Harrogate, watching these efficient aerial predators zipping about the pools along the beck.

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Another fine day on the moor. Passed several busy stonechat families over the course of a short walk.

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Ilkley Moor, the alternative reality I can escape to in minutes. A distant horizon, the absence, mostly, of human clamour - and the wildlife, sadly depleted in this impoverished island, but still glorious. A 180x90mm wood engraving soon to be available on my website: johnaltringham.co.uk

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Watercolour islands

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On the R Wharfe

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Lemonwood engraving block (180x90mm) and the first test print off the block - fauna and flora on Ilkley Moor. Some tidying up needed here and there, particularly the sky, but almost done. #WoodEngraving #printmaking #art #NaturalHistory #wildlife #birds

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Lemonwood engraving block (180x90mm) and the first test print off the block - fauna and flora on Ilkley Moor. Some tidying up needed here and there, particularly the sky, but almost done. #WoodEngraving #printmaking #art #NaturalHistory #wildlife #birds

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A slice of invertebrate life in the garden. Details in alt text.

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Sparrowhawk with breakfast, 3m outside the sitting room window. Tim Robinson described one in similar circumstances in Stones of Aran "as impatiently self-contained as a clenched fist".

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Working on a new engraving composition. One of the benefits is that I get to show you some of my favourite Ilkley Moor gritstone boulders.

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The two main products of wood engraving. I ought to find a use for the shavings.

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The moor gets some much needed rain.

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Another fine day in Wester Ross

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Yesterday, under a hot sun. Coire Mhic Fhearchair, a deep north-facing coire on the western edge of Beinn Eighe, Torridon, NW Scotland. The Torridonian sandstone base to Triple Buttress is capped by pale Cambrian quartzite.

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A little spring dazzle from the limestone landscape just upriver - mountain pansy and rock rose turning the hillsides gold.

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Sgùrr nan Fhir Duibhe, eastern peak of Beinn Eighe, Torridon. Photo, sketch, wood engraving (65x100mm). 540 million year old Cambrian quartzite falls from the summit over the underlying 1,000 myo Torridon sandstone, which sits on Lewisian gneiss up to 3,000 myo, more than half the age of the Earth.

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A walk in the woods before second breakfast. On the air waves... blackbird, song thrush, mistle thrush, robin, chaffinch, goldfinch, greenfinch, willow warbler, chiffchaff, blackcap, wren, nuthatch, great spotted woodpecker, blue, great, coal and long-tailed tits, dunnock, various corvids...etc.

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Female Goosander on the R. Wharfe. Chicks habitually hitch a lift and it gets competitive when there's a lot of them.

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Apparently it's #MountainMonday...

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Sketch from the archives. Arizona mesa under moonlight on a winter road trip around Grand, Zion and Bryce Canyons, 1983, when living in Seattle. Revisited in a pandemic lockdown slide show.

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